jcarpio

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Blake Masters pushes immigration conspiracy theory(nytimes.com)
2 points by jcarpio 4y ago|7 comments
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by jcarpio 5y ago
Some great answers here. Mine: Air Pods Pro. Takes the edge off of traffic and other city noises while walking around. Makes it easier to consume audiobooks/podcasts. Plane/bus/train trips++. Wool pants, shorts (with gussets
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by jcarpio 5y ago
Some good stuff here. I’ll add my $0.02. David Brooks talk on meaning (and how financial/social freedom isn’t as great as you think) https://youtu.be/iB4MS1hsWXU Paul Bloom and Sam Harris talk about PB’s new book The L
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The eccentric scientist behind the ‘gold standard’ Covid-19 test(nationalgeographic.com)
5 points by jcarpio 5y ago|2 comments
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Why do we work so damn much?(nytimes.com)
5 points by jcarpio 5y ago|1 comments
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Mt Shasta wildfire renders bridge impassable(twitter.com)
7 points by jcarpio 5y ago|1 comments
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Pfizer and Moderna vaccines may produce lasting immunity(nature.com)
223 points by jcarpio 5y ago|343 comments
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Is the Golden Gate Bridge’s New Fence Too Blowy for Cycling?(sf.streetsblog.org)
3 points by jcarpio 5y ago|0 comments
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by jcarpio 5y ago
An opinion piece on the matter of being clipped in vs street shoes: https://www.rivbike.com/pages/the-shoes-ruse
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Black Swan author: An employee is basically an “obedient, housebroken dog.”(linkedin.com)
23 points by jcarpio 5y ago|14 comments
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The Untold Story of the Teen Hackers Who Transformed the Early Internet(paleofuture.gizmodo.com)
10 points by jcarpio 5y ago|0 comments
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We Are in a “Fourth Turning”(m.youtube.com)
2 points by jcarpio 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Who is retiring? (October 2020)
10 points by jcarpio 6y ago|6 comments
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Paper Money with an Expiration Date(npr.org)
17 points by jcarpio 6y ago|26 comments
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Cannabis May Reduce Deadly Covid-19 Lung Inflammation: Researchers Explain Why(forbes.com)
8 points by jcarpio 6y ago|0 comments
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The Shoes Ruse(rivbike.com)
2 points by jcarpio 6y ago|0 comments
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New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David Lynch movie(kqed.org)
952 points by jcarpio 6y ago|332 comments
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by jcarpio 11y ago
How do you get good restaurant margins without alcohol sales? I wonder if the savings of not running an actual restaurant offsets that (or more).
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by jcarpio 11y ago
Ah, you wrote the piece: http://qz.com/57254/to-save-the-world-dont-get-a-job-at-a-ch... What did you think of Brook Allen's response: http://qz.com/57807/dont-come-to-wall-street-for-the-mone
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by jcarpio 12y ago
Which is then followed by: > Why Constructing a Viable Argument and Making Sense of the Reasoning of Others is Crucial. This may seriously be the most vital mathematical practice. Where the emphasis is on developing an understanding, a
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Animals have feelings, too.(coolhunting.com)
2 points by jcarpio 12y ago|0 comments
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by jcarpio 12y ago
> Also, in places like Africa,food is stored! Indeed. And, in savvier kitchens. See MFK Fisher's How to Cook a Wolf and the nicely written modern interpretation by Tamar Adler: The Everlasting Meal.
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by jcarpio 13y ago
I'd like to know if there's been an implementation of that. I remember reading about such a thing in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition.
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by jcarpio 13y ago
From http://www.voxburner.com/publications/323-buying-digital-con... wrt the survey details in the OP >Voxburner sourced 1,420 respondents and surveyed them between 25 September and 18 October 2013. Follow-up interv
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by jcarpio 13y ago
This is fantastic satire. Especially, since I've just read The Circle. Judging by the other comments here, a lot of us were going along believing it was true. Until robot. And, why not? The pieces were believable: OpenCV, NLTK, som
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by jcarpio 13y ago
Perhaps it's because, as the the book notes, that overlap in working schedules (which timezone overlap facilitates) is important to collaboration.
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by jcarpio 13y ago
>>Almost always, communication is done over email with a recruiter, and the average response time is several hours to a day. How about trying a different method? Instead of emailing a recruiter (or the company), try calling. This
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Swartz Suicide Propels Facebook Search for Danger Signs(mobile.bloomberg.com)
1 points by jcarpio 14y ago|0 comments
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by jcarpio 14y ago
Not only is this important in terms of accessibility (reach and cost), but also to consistently provide quality course content. An online class won't suffer from potential variabilities in quality that may impact traditional ones. In fact,
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by jcarpio 14y ago
From this Forbes piece: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/01/15/would-y... """ In truth, the most radical part of Crazy Blind Date (whose name and basic concept OK Cupid toyed with in an earlier form more than five years ago)

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